Ice Cream Sandwich now on 1 percent of all Android devices, Gingerbread still on the rise

Google has just released the latest numbers regarding who's using what version of Android. These are devices that have accessed the Android Market over two weeks ending Feb. 1. The long and short of it is this:

Ice Cream Sandwich is up to a whopping 1 percent of all devices. That's the Galaxy Nexus, of course.

Honeycomb (Android 3.0) is still around, hitting 3.4 percent of devices in the past two weeks, up a percentage point from a month ago.

Gingerbread (Android 2.3) is at 58.6 percent, up from 55.5 percent last month.

This counts devices that have accessed the Android Market in the two weeks during which the data was collected. Unless they are further fudging the numbers to weed out custom ROMs (a huge undertaking), then this means that when a device accesses the market (to check for app updates or when the Market app is launched) that device is added to the tally.

Good observation. It is so easy to lie with statistics, and this is a perfect example of it.

This stat only represents users who logged on to the Market and THAT should be the article heading. There is NO way that one in every 100 Android users has a Nexus, or any ICS device, especially considering that Google reports over 500,000 activations/day. (700,000 was a Christmas rush figure.) However, Both of these are also lies, if not, at that rate, everyone in the entire industrialized world will soon have an android phone. I love Android and Google, but I do not appreciate being played for a fool. Exaggerating doesn't win respect. It causes a loss of credibility.

Plus, the Nexus is a new device as are other devices with custom ROMs. It is normal for people with new devices to hit up the Market.

Plus, those users are doing so more than once, so these are not different people representing ICS usage as the article purports.

Plus the vast majority of people with a Nexus or custom ICS ROM are the better informed Android users who have an avid interest in everything Android. They are more likely to customize their phones will probably hit up the Market 3 to 5 times more often than average. [I prefer the Galaxy Note myself.]

The question now is, did Google spoof us or was this a poor choice for an article title by the writer? Hmmmmm.

Don't forget that Froyo didn't roll out until mid-2010. My mother-in-law bought her phone in early 2010 on a 2 year contact. Her phone never got the froyo update (she has some crappy Samsung keyboard phone (the one after the Moment that Sprint sold literally for 2 weeks)).

Android was updating their OS so much that a lot of non-flag bearing phones just got left behind and are forever stuck in pre-froyo.

Google only counting the devices that have official builds and is on the market.. Your EVO and other devices have builds but their rooted.. not officially from HTC or Samsung.. The Xoom have ICS also a long with the Prime.. but i guess tablets and phones are in their own category "shrug'

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